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An erect, branching, slightly hispid herb about 2 ft. high; branches suberect, quadrangular, rigid, pubescent; internodes of the flower-bearing branches shorter than the leaves or bracts. Leaves and bracts opposite, shortly petiolate, rather thick, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5–7 lin. long, and gradually smaller upwards, obtuse or subacute, slightly hispid; venation very obscure. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves or bracts on very short, slender, bibracteolate pedicels, about 3/4 in. long and as much across the top. Bracteoles linear or almost filiform, about as long as the calyx-tube. Calyx campanulate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, hispid at first, 10-ribbed, alternate, shorter ones obscure; lobes ovate-lanceolate, a little shorter than the tube, acute, slightly recurved. Corolla hairy outside, glabrous within, veined, cylindrical at the base, then suddenly inflated; limb oblique; upper lip emarginate; lower lip distinctly 3-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens included, glabrous; filaments filiform; anthers of the lower pair smaller. Ovary and lower part of the style clothed with long straight hairs; style very slender, longer than the stamens.

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An erect, branching, slightly hispid herb about 2 ft. high; branches suberect, quadrangular, rigid, pubescent; internodes of the flower-bearing branches shorter than the leaves or bracts. Leaves and bracts opposite, shortly petiolate, rather thick, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5–7 lin. long, and gradually smaller upwards, obtuse or subacute, slightly hispid; venation very obscure. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves or bracts on very short, slender, bibracteolate pedicels, about 3/4 in. long and as much across the top. Bracteoles linear or almost filiform, about as long as the calyx-tube. Calyx campanulate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, hispid at first, 10-ribbed, alternate, shorter ones obscure; lobes ovate-lanceolate, a little shorter than the tube, acute, slightly recurved. Corolla hairy outside, glabrous within, veined, cylindrical at the base, then suddenly inflated; limb oblique; upper lip emarginate; lower lip distinctly 3-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens included, glabrous; filaments filiform; anthers of the lower pair smaller. Ovary and lower part of the style clothed with long straight hairs; style very slender, longer than the stamens.

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An erect, branching, slightly hispid herb about 2 ft. high; branches suberect, quadrangular, rigid, pubescent; internodes of the flower-bearing branches shorter than the leaves or bracts. Leaves and bracts opposite, shortly petiolate, rather thick, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5–7 lin. long, and gradually smaller upwards, obtuse or subacute, slightly hispid; venation very obscure. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves or bracts on very short, slender, bibracteolate pedicels, about 3/4 in. long and as much across the top. Bracteoles linear or almost filiform, about as long as the calyx-tube. Calyx campanulate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, hispid at first, 10-ribbed, alternate, shorter ones obscure; lobes ovate-lanceolate, a little shorter than the tube, acute, slightly recurved. Corolla hairy outside, glabrous within, veined, cylindrical at the base, then suddenly inflated; limb oblique; upper lip emarginate; lower lip distinctly 3-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens included, glabrous; filaments filiform; anthers of the lower pair smaller. Ovary and lower part of the style clothed with long straight hairs; style very slender, longer than the stamens.